Ponderable

[Hüsker Dü]

Do you always speak for everyone?

Did I scare you again?

 

[Lion Eyes]

You are old aren't ya? $31 an hour really ain't that much these days . . . around 50 cents a minute. If you want good, dependable, customer friendly employees you pay them to be that way.

So you're in HR now, huh? Fascinating.

 

[Bruddah IZ]

I think I see your problem.

That's the problem with you.

 

[Sheriff Joe]

You are old aren't ya? $31 an hour really ain't that much these days . . . around 50 cents a minute. If you want good, dependable, customer friendly employees you pay them to be that way.

Obviously you don't have employees. Union thinking, union boy.

 

[Bruddah IZ]

Did I scare you again?

Yes. You people are shooting those you disagree with.

 

[espola]

Yeah, right, that's what they tell you. Think for yourself once in awhile . . . how many people would want to negotiate down from minimum wage? There is of course the "under the table" agreement circumventing any benefits, SS, taxes, etc.

That's the way my wife hired gardeners from the corner when we had a big job to do - $50 a day plus lunch and drinks.

 

[Bernie Sanders]

You are old aren't ya? $31 an hour really ain't that much these days . . . around 50 cents a minute. If you want good, dependable, customer friendly employees you pay them to be that way.

I didnt comment on whether it was too little or too much.
I just asked a question, following up a previous question.
This is how I learn things.

 

[Wez]

That's the way my wife hired gardeners from the corner when we had a big job to do - $50 a day plus lunch and drinks.

You pay $50 for a full day's work??

 

[Bernie Sanders]

That's the way my wife hired gardeners from the corner when we had a big job to do - $50 a day plus lunch and drinks.

Ive never done that.
Maybe xavi should read you the riot act, instead of those of us who dont break labor laws.

 

[Lion Eyes]

I didnt comment on whether it was too little or too much.
I just asked a question, following up a previous question.
This is how I learn things.

As usual jumping to conclusions, reading more into the post than was there or intended...and of course the condescending projection....

 

[Bernie Sanders]

You pay $50 for a full day's work??

Rat posted on the old forum, how he hired illegals to do work around the house, as well.

 

[espola]

You pay $50 for a full day's work??

Plus lunch and choice of drinks.

 

[Bruddah IZ]

You think skilled workers should make minimum wage? Are you some kinda commie? Maybe you need to go back to school and update your credentials?

Depends on their skill. If I were a commie we would be comrades. Credentials are over rated and protectionist.

 

[Wez]

Plus lunch and choice of drinks.

I'm obviously far too generous...

 

[espola]

Rat posted on the old forum, how he hired illegals to do work around the house, as well.

I don't know that they were illegal - I never saw them.

 

[Bruddah IZ]

That's the way my wife hired gardeners from the corner when we had a big job to do - $50 a day plus lunch and drinks.

What a rip off

 

[xav10]

The only thing that minimum wage eliminates is the employee and employers right to negotiate a labor contract that they both agree on.

You've got to be kidding suggesting that the individual worker should be expected to negotiate with capital/corporation without a government- or union-mandated wage floor. I think we figured that out about 100 years ago. Unless #MAGA refers to the industrial revolution...and it might!

 

[xav10]

You pay 31.00 an hour for full time "clerical work"?
What kind of other benefits do you provide?

insurance benefits and very modest 401(k) benefits. I don't have shareholders and my experience suggests, as I have mentioned, that you pay more to make more.

 

[Bruddah IZ]

You've got to be kidding suggesting that the individual worker should be expected to negotiate with capital/corporation without a government- or union-mandated wage floor. I think we figured that out about 100 years ago. Unless #MAGA refers to the industrial revolution...and it might!

The assumption being that the government or Union knows what is best for every worker. Protectionist wage policies usually end up enforcing the real minimum wage, $0.00.

 

[espola]

What a rip off

That was back when minimum wage was $5/hour or so.